Moliere Quotes
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Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly.
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Reason is not what decides love.
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And knowing money is a root of evil, in Christian charity, he'd take away whatever things may hinder your salvation.
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Even Rome cannot grant us a dispensation from death.
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I hate all men, the ones because they are mean and vicious, and the others for being complaisant with the vicious ones.
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What a terrible thing to be a great lord, yet a wicked man.
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People don't mind being mean; but they never want to be ridiculous.
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All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly.
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It's true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
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There is no rampart that will hold out against malice.
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Age brings about everything; but it is not the time, Madam, as we know, to be a prude at twenty.
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Gold is the key, whatever else we try; and that sweet metal aids the conqueror in every case, in love as well as war.
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Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.
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Ah, there are no longer any children!
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Sharing with Jupiter is never a dishonor.
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Tobacco is the passion of honest men and he who lives without tobacco is not worthy of living.
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Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.
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All the satires of the stage should be viewed without discomfort. They are public mirrors, where we are never to admit that we seeourselves; one admits to a fault when one is scandalized by its censure.
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How strange it is to see with how much passion People see things only in their own fashion!
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I want to be distinguished from the rest; to tell the truth, a friend to all mankind is not a friend for me.
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Rest assured that there is nothing which wounds the heart of a noble man more deeply than the thought his honour is assailed.
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I will maintain it before the whole world.
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Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths.
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No reason makes it right To shun accepted ways from stubborn spite; And we may better join the foolish crowd Than cling to wisdom, lonely though unbowed.